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The study of transverse optical pattern formation has been studied extensively in nonlinear optics, with a recent experimental interest in studying the phenomenon using cold atoms, which can undergo real-space self-organization. Here, we…

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In this chapter a general mathematical model of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is presented on the basis of the electromagnetic theory. OCT produces high resolution images of the inner structure of biological tissues. Images are…

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The optical properties of a fixed atom are well-known and investigated. For example, the extraordinarily large cross section of a single atom as seen by a resonant photon is essential for quantum optical applications. Mechanical effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Teresa D. Karanikolaou , Robert J. Bettles , Darrick E. Chang

Manipulation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is essential in OAM-based optical systems. Especially, OAM divider, which can convert the incoming OAM mode into one or several new smaller modes in proportion at different spatial…

A general framework for the description of the physical properties of matter by a canonical reduction procedure of tensors is presented; besides geometrical symmetries, this paper emphasizes the role of intrinsic symmetries which are due…

General Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 R. Bonneville

Early theoretical works on coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering in optically active medium consider only heterodyne signal and subsequently, fourth- and fifth-rank tensor averages have been used. In this work, we presented a full signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Tuguldur Kh. Begzjav , Marlan O. Scully , Girish S. Agarwal

An analytical microscopic theory for the resonant multiple scattering of light by cold atoms with arbitrary internal degeneracy is presented. It permits to calculate the average amplitude and the average intensity for one-photon states of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. Mueller , C. Miniatura

Many naturally-occuring models in the sciences are well-approximated by simplified models, using multiscale techniques. In such settings it is natural to ask about the relationship between inverse problems defined by the original problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Kit Newton , Qin Li , Andrew Stuart

An atom in open space can be detected by means of resonant absorption and reemission of electromagnetic waves, known as resonance fluorescence, which is a fundamental phenomenon of quantum optics. We report on the observation of scattering…

To manipulate orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by light beams, there is a great interest in designing various optical elements from the deep-ultraviolet to the microwave. Normally, the OAM variation introduced by optical elements can…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-31 Dengke Zhang , Xue Feng , Yidong Huang

Recent progress in experimental techniques has made it possible to extract detailed information on dynamics of carriers in a correlated electron material from its optical conductivity, $\sigma(\Omega, T)$. This review consists of three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-09 Dmitrii L. Maslov , Andrey V. Chubukov

Dense active matter, in the fluid or amorphous-solid form, has generated intense interest as a model for the dynamics inside living cells and multicellular systems. An extension of the random first-order transition theory (RFOT) to include…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-16 Rituparno Mandal , Saroj Kumar Nandi , Chandan Dasgupta , Peter Sollich , Nir S. Gov

Optical tweezers (OTs) with structured light expand degrees of freedom of particle manipulation. However, the studies of structured optical tweezers are usually accompanied by complex theoretical models, strict simulation conditions, and…

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X-ray scattering at the carbon absorption edge is uniquely sensitive to local molecular bond identity and orientation in organic nanostructures, encoded as a function of photon energy and polarization. However, quantitative analysis is…

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging technique with extensive clinical applications in ophthalmology. OCT enables the visualization of the retinal layers, playing a vital role in the early detection and monitoring of…

We demonstrate the phenomenon of resonant activation in a non-adiabatically driven dissipative optical lattice with broken time-symmetry. The resonant activation results in a resonance as function of the driving frequency in the current of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Gommers , P. Douglas , S. Bergamini , M. Goonasekera , P. H. Jones , F. Renzoni

In this paper, we demonstrate that atom probe tomography (APT) can be applied to small-molecule organic materials. We show that APT can provide an unprecedented combination of mass resolution of $\lt 1~\mathrm{Da}$, spatial resolution of…

Using the multipole expansion of electromagnetic (EM) field, we present the angular magnetoelectric (AME) coupling in irreducible tensor form. We evaluate the matrix elements when the radiation source is described by electronic transitions…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Rytis Jursenas

We provide an analytical description of the dynamics of an atom in an optical lattice using the method of perturbative adiabatic expansion. A precise understanding of the lattice-atom interaction is essential to taking full advantage of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tim Kovachy , Jason M. Hogan , David M. S. Johnson , Mark A. Kasevich

A general proof of the optical theorem (also known as the optical cross-section theorem) is presented that reveals the intimate connection between the forward scattering amplitude and the absorption-plus-scattering of the incident wave…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Masud Mansuripur